A-Z of Songs with Girl's names in the title
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@Higgins TBH I didn't remember the Sam Cooke version at all. I just googled it as it's an old standard and his version came up
From wiki
The song was inspired by one or more actual murders. One of these took place in an apartment building located at 212 Targee Street in St. Louis, Missouri, at 2:00 on the morning of October 15, 1899. Frankie Baker (1876 – 1952),[1] a 22-year-old woman, shot her 17-year-old lover Allen (also known as "Albert") Britt in the abdomen. Britt had just returned from a cakewalk at a local dance hall, where he and another woman, Nelly Bly (also known as "Alice Pryor" and no relation to the pioneering reporter who adopted the pseudonym Nellie Bly or Stephen Foster's Nelly Bly), had won a prize in a slow-dancing contest. Britt died of his wounds four days later at the City Hospital.[2][3][4] On trial, Baker claimed that Britt had attacked her with a knife and that she acted in self-defense; she was acquitted and died in a Portland, Oregon mental institution in 1952.
In 1899, popular St Louis balladeer Bill Dooley composed "Frankie Killed Allen" shortly after the Baker murder case.[5] The first published version of the music to "Frankie and Johnny" appeared in 1904, credited to and copyrighted by Hughie Cannon, the composer of "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey"
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@MiketheSnow said in A-Z of Songs with Girl's names in the title:
Dusting off the parka are we Mike?
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@Crucial said in A-Z of Songs with Girl's names in the title:
@MiketheSnow said in A-Z of Songs with Girl's names in the title:
Dusting off the parka are we Mike?
Was a punk / new wave kid but fair play the mods had some great tracks
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